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by simiones 3y ago
Discreteness would mean that there exists some base distance p such that the distance between any two objects is Np, with N being a natural number (and any surface is some Mp^2 and any volume is Qp^3 and so on). Continuity is simply the opp
602.
by simiones 3y ago
I don't think many would call Arch "boring technology". It's a cutting-edge distro, and it is designed with the expectation that you will read the wiki, since you don't have any chance to properly install it if you
603.
by simiones 3y ago
Under-delivering is always compared to your promises. And they significantly over-promise, and, thus, consistently under-deliver. Especially at the company level - look at the Cybertruck and electric trucks - way over schedule, under powere
604.
by simiones 3y ago
> And they would have every right (according to current IP case-law) to do so. Actually, the result of the Google v Oracle case was ultimately that what Google was doing constitutes fair use - and what MinGW is doing is even more clearly
605.
by simiones 3y ago
The point is that if I'm buying an app from, say, some Facebook store to install on my iPhone, Apple is not involved in this transaction, so they shouldn't get a cut.
606.
by simiones 3y ago
I think it's established that photos taken by animals are not copyrightable works, so you can do anything you want with them, at least in the USA.
607.
by simiones 3y ago
Agreed - Venus is particularly unlikely to have any life because of its temperatures, I wasn't trying to claim otherwise, just choosing a near neighbor for which we haven't ever tried to look at its rocks through a microscope. How
608.
by simiones 3y ago
Oops, you're right, even that is too advanced...
609.
by simiones 3y ago
I am, but this is just not what those words mean, to anyone.
610.
by simiones 3y ago
> By definition, anything that can exist in this universe is naturally part of the universe. Agreed. > Nothing can be made or manufactured that is unnatural or artificial. This doesn't follow in any way, not with the definition I
611.
by simiones 3y ago
It's perfectly consistent that the origin of life itself can be a geological process but that the products of life itself are a separate category.
612.
by simiones 3y ago
Sure, but then of course absolutely everything is "naturally occurring". Plastic is a naturally occurring substance, computers are naturally occurring objects, C++ is a natural language. Perhaps then only miracles from God (for th
613.
by simiones 3y ago
You're asking the question backwards. We have a concept, "byproduct of human action". We needed a word for this concept. We more or less arbitrarily chose "unnatural" or "artificial" as the words for this
614.
by simiones 3y ago
No, because birds are not humans. To be fair, "unnatural" is sometimes extended to refer to "life" instead of "humans", typically only when talking about the evolution of life or the search for extraterrestrial
615.
by simiones 3y ago
I don't think we have any tools that could possibly detect bacterial life anywhere where we don't have a physical presence at the moment. That is, even if Venus were teeming with simple life on every square cm, I don't think
616.
by simiones 3y ago
I think the line is typically drawn at any human intervention. I doubt many humans consider steaks to be a naturally occurring phenomenon. Now, there is a secondary fuzzy notion of "artificial" typically used in relation to "
617.
by simiones 3y ago
"unnatural" or "artificial" have a very clear meaning: made by the intervention of humans in ways outside our base anatomical functions (so excluding babys or spilled blood). This intervention can be mechanical (Stonehen
618.
by simiones 3y ago
Most coral reefs predate human intervention by a few hundred million years.
619.
by simiones 3y ago
> One might say who cares if they don't define it? Well, if you don't define it, there's no point in discussing whether it exists, how it came to be, or what it comprises. This is not how we normally treat other concepts,
620.
by simiones 3y ago
Preferably written in assembler, to avoid the extra complexity of a compiler, right? Configuration files have been a common feature of software since OSs exist, basically. They serve a clear and useful purpose, even though they create some
621.
by simiones 3y ago
Except when you need anything more complex than a string or an array of strings, when they become entirely useless. There is not a single even slightly complex piece of software that uses exclusively env vars for configuration. Even bash or
622.
by simiones 3y ago
We may get to find out. Google blocked MS from developing their own YouTube app for the Windows Phone (by changing YT APIs in incompatible ways whenever MS made it, no less). If they want to attack Apple, they will probably do the same.
623.
by simiones 3y ago
> P1: If intelligent system A cannot give a detailed account of how it would be bested by a more intelligent system B, then A will not be bested by B. P2: Humans (so far) cannot give a detailed account of how a more intelligent AI sy
624.
by simiones 3y ago
It's still very much possible that intelligence as we understand it is fundamentally limited. That is, it's possible that the smartest possible being is not that much smarter than a human, just like the speed of matter and energy
625.
by simiones 3y ago
I misunderstood that part, sorry.
626.
by simiones 3y ago
That's only because Congress refuses to legislate. Congress could pass a law that says women have the right to an abortion up to X weeks with Y exceptions (or don't or whatever Congress determines is the will of the people), and R
627.
by simiones 3y ago
That's not the point the poster above was making. They were saying that, if Congress passed a morally unfair law (say, Congress passed a law requiring all transactions in the USA of any kind to pay a 30% commission to Apple Inc.), it&#
628.
by simiones 3y ago
Pretty sure that Epic will sue again over this, and quite easily win. If Apple has to allow you to advertise that things can be bought from somewhere else, it doesn't seem plausible they can mandate how exactly you advertise this.
629.
by simiones 3y ago
That doesn't work for in-app purchases, which is almost certainly the majority of revenue.
630.
by simiones 3y ago
That only works for apps that are exclusive to Apple devices or that have separate licenses for Apple devices. If I buy Epic in-game currency from Epic and use it on my PC to buy some skin, and then use the skin I bought that way when playi

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